Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev

Those of you who may have read my ColdFusion review will know that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Microsoft. They seem to have the knack of making products that people will accept (usually because they’re so widely distributed) even though there’s better stuff available. This opinion is about one competitor to a Microsoft product in the area of web design tools – Macromedia Dreamwever. I’ll hold up my hands right out of the gate and admit that most people will be more than happy to use a tool that comes bundled with their computers cos it’s free. DreamWeaver you’ll have to buy (unless you can thieve a copy from ...  Read the complete review

I’ve used Macromedia Dreamweaver since version 1.0 and every time a new version is released, the software contains one single feature that makes everything easier as well as a bunch of pretty useless features that aren’t worth the price. Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev is basically Dreamweaver with a new “scripting” window that lets you compile ASP, JSP and ColdFusion code direct from the software, rather than using Notepad. As far as I’m concerned, that isn’t worth the £100+ upgrade price. The reason being that the wizards, behaviours and dialog boxes that come with Ultradev aren’t particurlaly powerful and create code ...  Read the complete review

Dreamweaver Ultradev hey, so what's that then. Well its Dreamweaver 3, with its international claim as the BEST Web site builder, plus it does lots of nice Server Side Scripting whatnots. I won't go into Dreamweaver 3 here as its been covered by someone else and all the features of DW3 are present in Ultradev. Dreamweaver Ultradev came about because Macromedia wanted to get into this server side business as it is growing, massively. So it bought out a company who made a product called Drumbeat. Its now taken this Drumbeat technology and integrated it seamlessly into Dreamweaver Ultradev. So what's this Server Side Scripting malarkey? Well, at its ...  Read the complete review

This is an update to my original op as I have now used UltraDev for over a year and learnt far more about it. ============================================= I've used Macromedia products for over 2 years now, and I find that they're the best for creating websites and multimedia products. The most recent addition to my list of skills is Macromedia UltraDev 4, the latest version of their web design software, which now supports database access. Installation ------------ This is probably the simplest part of the process as it's the same as all other Macromedia products. You have to enter your details and serial number as usual and ...  Read the complete review

OK, i'm prepared to forgive UltraDevs many shortcomings due to it being only release 1 of the software. Create a connection and recordset and take a look at that bloated mess of code you get! Then for a real laugh, create a paged recordset and see those page sizes go through the roof!! Seriously, with NO error checking, poor support of only ASP 2.0 and seriously lacking database interfacing (no Getrows, Getstring, disconnected rs's) i'm going to stick with hand code. But thats me, if you think about who this software has been made for (ie, web designers not developers and programmers) then you would have to say that its a fine piece of ...  Read the complete review